INSTA @maria_a_ahmed

The Doughnut(W)hole, selected artist for online pavillion curated by Kim Shaw for the Wrong Biennale, 2025 (forthcoming)

De-constructed,  B-Part Exhibition, Berlin, group show curated by the Photographic Exploration Project, 2025 (forthcoming)

Infinite Index, artist’s publication for ABC mail art project Pushing the Envelope - 99g curated by Lucy Helton at the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, 2025 

Epistemologies artist’s film screening as part of Garden of Humanities, curated by Lily Haapala and hosted by video art festival Turku Art House, Finland, at Kino Kilta, 2025

Poetics of Error, group publication by Marie Molins (forthcoming)

Participant, Offprint London, Tate Modern, 2024/5

Participant, Peckham 24 A Bigger Book Fair, 2024/5

Artist Residency, AARK Finland, 2022/3/4/5

Featured project, Philosophy and Photography Lab, 2024

Participant, Inventory Art Book Fair, 2024

Participant, Format Print Market, QUAD Derby, 2024

Pecha Kucha, Ambika P3 gallery, 2023

Participant, artist’s book workshop, Backbone Books, Berlin, 2023

Artist’s talk with Lucy Soutter and Sarah-Jane Field, Photofusion, 2023

Slips and Burns - solo exhibition, Photofusion, 2023
Curator: Katy Barron

TRACE Mentorship artist’s development scheme 2022-3 (online) 

Format 22 Artist’s panel discussion with Ibby Azab, 2022 (online)

Format 22 multiplayer exhibition Kipya Ki? (What’s New?) 2022
Curators: Ibrahim Azab (UK) & Trevor Mukholi (Uganda) (online)

Select 21 Artist’s talk with Katy Barron, Photofusion, 2022 (online)

Select 21 Photofusion group show, 2022

Participant, London Creative Network 2021-2 (online)

Photofusion Salon group show, 2021

I Didn’t Lick it, Bruton Correspondence School, 2021 (mail art)

Source Graduate Photography Online, 2020

Awards:

Shortlisted Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2025

Shortlisted Belfast Photofestival, 2022

Shortlisted FE+ Skinnerboox Book Award, 2022

Shortlisted Fiebre Dummy Award, 2022

Shortlisted Images Vevey Book Award, 2021

Photofusion Select Award, 2021

Photofusion Graduate Prize, 2020


Texts:

Slips and Burns, Caroline Molloy, 2023, Photomonitor

Mixed Memories, David Bate, 2023

Heaven Speed the Chameleon, Calum Beaney 2021, C4 Journal


Education:

MA Photography Arts, University of Westminster, 2020

BA Hons English, Wadham College, University of Oxford


Teaching:

Arts University Bournemouth, online tutor (2024- present)

Kingston School of Art, 0.5 senior lecturer (2010-2025)

Qualifications:

Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy